Cripes.... I work for a company that was exactly "too lazy to re-number internal devices" too. We solved it with minimal of hassle.
There were 8 servers and 5 printers they didn't want to mess with, so the firewall was re-configured to NAT the new public addresses to the old public addresses. (The doorknobs were using publicly routable IP address space for internal workstations... dumb dumb dumb.)
The network is now on DHCP, but we STILL use the address block of the original ISP for the DHCP block. There is a DMZ with the real IP block on it now.
Nobody on the outside world cares, and the machines we use don't care either. Of course, had they read the manual for the printers and realized they could change the IPs, they could have avoided the whole issue. But in the long run for us at least, it has made little difference which IP block we use.
I have the feeling the plantif in this case is looking at the IP addresses in a web server (which could be quite a few) and realizing there's no easy way to change them if he's using host headers other than go in and re-congigure each one.
Compressed air would take WAY more air preasure and volume than what a kid could normally produce with a few pumps.
Compressed air on top of the rocket created by the little pump, on release it pushed the water downwards at high speed... causing the plastic casing to shoot upwards.
Any weather is good surrender weather. Current weather has no market value, as when the fleeing reach the front porch they'll know what the current weather conditions are.
It just so happens that one of my web hosting customers has a very similar layout, and has had it since before August, 2000 when they registered their domain name through me.
They are a bank, and use electronic tellers (basically an electronic drive thru kiosk) for their tellers, cookies, coffee, lounge areas and toys.
The financial advisors are still at normal desks.
Having the money behind a pheumatic tube does not hurt the throughput any, and is a HUGE cost savings on insurance because there is NO MONEY a wood-be robber can grab. It's all in a locked room. Unless they have trained attack ferrets to go through the tubes... a guy with a gun is only going to get what's in the people's wallets.
The company that was pushing the kiosks came up with the ideas for the layout.
This bank is definately not the first one doing it, nor were they the first customers of the kiosk company.
So there is definately prior art...
Aside from that, the patent is stupid. Someone might make a case for an overall decor style (similar to the Aqua Mac thing, or the iMac format) but the physical placement of furniture and features of the lobby is not something that is inovative and it wasn't new when the patent was filed.
Not one of the CDs in my collection have my signature on them or of store clerks or legal representatives of any company. (One has Ben Folds... but that's on the case not the CD.) Nor did they even have a "shrinkwrap" license on them. What if I pocket the CD from the store? Or break into some poor sap's car? Is there a "contract" then?
Cant right'ly be held accountable for a contract when none was signed now eh? Your point of view does not make any sense.
If I download the music, there is not even a physical CD they can put fine print on.
By buying the music, I own it. It is however, a civil copyright violation to do certain things with it like make a bunch of copies and pass them out.
According to you its a contractual issue, according to others its "stealing". Bah. Make up your damn minds you dittoheads.
In all what you call it makes little difference to me. I have a small network of friends and pals; we share porn, warez, music via sneakernet or private web sites. Those with specific interests allow others to browse the stuff they have collected. Public P2P is too much of a PITA, when I can make a few emails and get an album I want at the bitrate I want in a day or two it's not worth using anymore.
IANITNBIAANG (I am not in the Navy, but I am a Naval Geek)
The rail gun weapon system has a much greater "force projection" than a battleship gun and have other side benefits.
How many of those metal slugs can they stack in a ship compared to regular shells? What happens when you breech the magazine of a battleship compared to a rail gun frigate? Boom vs. clank. Keep your reactor and electricity flowing and you have a more efficient and cheaper way to wreck stuff from a long distance saving taxpayer money and still getting the job done.
The shells go faster than any missile, farther (and faster) than any dumb or smart shell, so making hitting a flighty target much easier.
A predator drone miles and miles inland can spot a target and it takes hours for a Tomahawk to get there, tens of minutes for a loitering fighter plane, and a few minutes or tens of seconds for a rail gun round to get there.
Since the "speed of intelligence" has increased, so has the desire for high speed weapon systems to deliver destruction on a target. Travel time of the actual attack munitions has now become somewhat of an issue and these types of weapons would help that issue.
AOL user has a button in their email "this is spam" or "I don't want this" or somesuch.
When they hit the button, the message and headers are sent to some server.
The server automatically blocks the IP of the SMTP server that sent the message so it can no longer send email to AOL.
This works in theory, execpt many users treat this button as a way to muffle their annoying friends. So a "forwarded joke" can get flagged as spam even if it is from their cousin on a small local ISP. There is NO oversight in the process.
Utterly stupid.
I know this, because a local ISP that I help out sometimes coaxed the AOL people to foward the messages with headers so he could address the "problems" and get his mail server unblocked. The messages were personal emails, notes from friends, messages from people's own lawyers as well as normal span.
I am not sure if they have given up caring if AOL-bound emails are blocked. But that's just about the only thing they can do.
Though, it's not 90 degree angle, but something more like 15 degrees.
It is _creepy_ to watch. Like bending fingers way over backwards creepy. It just looks like something is wrong.
The only real world comparison I can think of is the motocross or rally races where cars or bikes catch air a lot, the driver aligns the front wheels with the direction of the car on landing to avoid rolling over or losing control.
If one uses the airlines approach to safety as a guide, at the point where it costs them more than 3.4 million dollars in liability and litigation per person is what each person's life is worth. The number varies, but has been quoted on the Discovery Channel's "air disasters" tv show several times.
By that measure, any worm creator can have his economic impact translated into "if they'd murdered instead" numbers.
When damage estimates are in the billions... at a certain point even if the estimates are way wrong... you gotta figure the death penalty is not out of the question.
Seriously though, intent is a big portion of how severe the punishment is, thus the difference between manslaughter and first degree murder. the problem is these guys always have the "well I was just fooling around and didn't mean it" excuse to make them not seem so bad.
Either you posted the wrong link, or don't know what "vertical" means or haven't read a book recently or something. Maybe you just need glasses?
Your link clearly shows his right hand near the (correctly) upright screen, and his left holding a coffee cup near the keyboard, which is correctly sitting on his lap. The data ports on that laptop are on the hinge, which goes from one knee to another as it would during normal usage.
that had it. I can only sumarize my advice in a few words:
stay on the meds stay on the meds stay on the meds stay on the fucking meds.
Problem is, the patients do not like them, and quite often get emotional or physical rushes from not being on the meds. They have to have a good support structure to keep them on the meds.
It's hard to keep up with it, but if your sister avoids things like self-mutilation and so on it's worthwhile.
If he does FBI at the door illegal stuff, having an open network might keep the conviction off. (Not if he says what he's doing in an article though..)
However, the open access point is FAR more likely to attract someone with the same idea, "hey, let's download mp3s on this guy's network!"
Now he's got several people doing it instead of one.... which mean's he's far more likely to get attention from RIAA or whatever and cause himself civil suit harm. Civil suits have "perponderance of evidence" for the loser, not the "beyond reasonable doubt" for criminal.
So he trades a low risk of jail for a MUCH higher risk of civil problems.
That's just dumb.
Just go find someone ELSE's access point that's unsecured and use that. Duh.
Except though Google has not gone all the way to a genericized name quite yet.
When people say they are "Googling" they mean they actually used Google to search the Internet.
Which is similar to but has a critical difference from asking for a "Kleenex" or a "Puff" (as some women 'round here say). A "kleenex" has become diluted to the point that people use it to refer to any paper that can be used to blow one's nose. When asking for "a kleenex" being and given a length of toilet paper I wouldn't complain, but saying "Google this" and seeing someone visit AltaVista my response would be "what the fuck are you doing? I told you to use Google."
For a second example; someone "Scotch Guarding" a carpet means they are actually applying the stuff that says "Scotch Guard" on the bottle to their carpet not just using some similar chemical carpet protectant. (Yeah, I know they stopped making the stuff...)
The only problem Google has is the clueless fuckwits that hear the conversation and think it means searching in general. Of course those people are mostly to dim to get on the internet in the first place or already use AOLsearch exclusively.
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I was just watching a crappy Sci-Fi movie called "Impostor" that used a device very much like they described.
It got stopped be lead paint tho.
Now all we need is robot alien duplicate impostors with bombs planted in their chests to assasinate world leaders and we have something....
A big sled. Or lots of not so big sleds with "skyway" connections.
Basically, each building is a barge that simply sits on the existing snow with a sled front and three sides vertical.
When needed, the thing is hauled (like a sled) up to the top of the surface of the snow.
Make a slow circle and you can stay more or less in the same spot for years and not care if it snows a lot or a little.
Complicated engineering... but it doesnt fight mother nature but rather lets her do her thing.
Cripes.... I work for a company that was exactly "too lazy to re-number internal devices" too. We solved it with minimal of hassle.
There were 8 servers and 5 printers they didn't want to mess with, so the firewall was re-configured to NAT the new public addresses to the old public addresses. (The doorknobs were using publicly routable IP address space for internal workstations... dumb dumb dumb.)
The network is now on DHCP, but we STILL use the address block of the original ISP for the DHCP block. There is a DMZ with the real IP block on it now.
Nobody on the outside world cares, and the machines we use don't care either. Of course, had they read the manual for the printers and realized they could change the IPs, they could have avoided the whole issue. But in the long run for us at least, it has made little difference which IP block we use.
I have the feeling the plantif in this case is looking at the IP addresses in a web server (which could be quite a few) and realizing there's no easy way to change them if he's using host headers other than go in and re-congigure each one.
Compressed air for the energy store.
Water for the ejection mass.
Compressed air would take WAY more air preasure and volume than what a kid could normally produce with a few pumps.
Compressed air on top of the rocket created by the little pump, on release it pushed the water downwards at high speed... causing the plastic casing to shoot upwards.
Any weather is good surrender weather. Current weather has no market value, as when the fleeing reach the front porch they'll know what the current weather conditions are.
It just so happens that one of my web hosting customers has a very similar layout, and has had it since before August, 2000 when they registered their domain name through me.
They are a bank, and use electronic tellers (basically an electronic drive thru kiosk) for their tellers, cookies, coffee, lounge areas and toys.
The financial advisors are still at normal desks.
Having the money behind a pheumatic tube does not hurt the throughput any, and is a HUGE cost savings on insurance because there is NO MONEY a wood-be robber can grab. It's all in a locked room. Unless they have trained attack ferrets to go through the tubes... a guy with a gun is only going to get what's in the people's wallets.
The company that was pushing the kiosks came up with the ideas for the layout.
This bank is definately not the first one doing it, nor were they the first customers of the kiosk company.
So there is definately prior art...
Aside from that, the patent is stupid. Someone might make a case for an overall decor style (similar to the Aqua Mac thing, or the iMac format) but the physical placement of furniture and features of the lobby is not something that is inovative and it wasn't new when the patent was filed.
Diet or regular Coke.
:)
Sugar (or corn syrup) disolved in the water will change the density of the Coke. So you should say "about a two liter of spring water" really...
Not one of the CDs in my collection have my signature on them or of store clerks or legal representatives of any company. (One has Ben Folds... but that's on the case not the CD.) Nor did they even have a "shrinkwrap" license on them. What if I pocket the CD from the store? Or break into some poor sap's car? Is there a "contract" then?
Cant right'ly be held accountable for a contract when none was signed now eh? Your point of view does not make any sense.
If I download the music, there is not even a physical CD they can put fine print on.
By buying the music, I own it. It is however, a civil copyright violation to do certain things with it like make a bunch of copies and pass them out.
According to you its a contractual issue, according to others its "stealing". Bah. Make up your damn minds you dittoheads.
In all what you call it makes little difference to me. I have a small network of friends and pals; we share porn, warez, music via sneakernet or private web sites. Those with specific interests allow others to browse the stuff they have collected. Public P2P is too much of a PITA, when I can make a few emails and get an album I want at the bitrate I want in a day or two it's not worth using anymore.
IANITNBIAANG (I am not in the Navy, but I am a Naval Geek)
The rail gun weapon system has a much greater "force projection" than a battleship gun and have other side benefits.
How many of those metal slugs can they stack in a ship compared to regular shells? What happens when you breech the magazine of a battleship compared to a rail gun frigate? Boom vs. clank. Keep your reactor and electricity flowing and you have a more efficient and cheaper way to wreck stuff from a long distance saving taxpayer money and still getting the job done.
The shells go faster than any missile, farther (and faster) than any dumb or smart shell, so making hitting a flighty target much easier.
A predator drone miles and miles inland can spot a target and it takes hours for a Tomahawk to get there, tens of minutes for a loitering fighter plane, and a few minutes or tens of seconds for a rail gun round to get there.
Since the "speed of intelligence" has increased, so has the desire for high speed weapon systems to deliver destruction on a target. Travel time of the actual attack munitions has now become somewhat of an issue and these types of weapons would help that issue.
Here's how it works:
AOL user has a button in their email "this is spam" or "I don't want this" or somesuch.
When they hit the button, the message and headers are sent to some server.
The server automatically blocks the IP of the SMTP server that sent the message so it can no longer send email to AOL.
This works in theory, execpt many users treat this button as a way to muffle their annoying friends. So a "forwarded joke" can get flagged as spam even if it is from their cousin on a small local ISP. There is NO oversight in the process.
Utterly stupid.
I know this, because a local ISP that I help out sometimes coaxed the AOL people to foward the messages with headers so he could address the "problems" and get his mail server unblocked. The messages were personal emails, notes from friends, messages from people's own lawyers as well as normal span.
I am not sure if they have given up caring if AOL-bound emails are blocked. But that's just about the only thing they can do.
There was an article on the BBC News web site that Microsoft had confirmed (today) that SP2 would include checks for 20 or so pirated keys.
If the correction came today, mass confusion! If not, they may have just confirmed it.
Yup. You got it.
Though, it's not 90 degree angle, but something more like 15 degrees.
It is _creepy_ to watch. Like bending fingers way over backwards creepy. It just looks like something is wrong.
The only real world comparison I can think of is the motocross or rally races where cars or bikes catch air a lot, the driver aligns the front wheels with the direction of the car on landing to avoid rolling over or losing control.
About 3.4 million.
If one uses the airlines approach to safety as a guide, at the point where it costs them more than 3.4 million dollars in liability and litigation per person is what each person's life is worth. The number varies, but has been quoted on the Discovery Channel's "air disasters" tv show several times.
By that measure, any worm creator can have his economic impact translated into "if they'd murdered instead" numbers.
When damage estimates are in the billions... at a certain point even if the estimates are way wrong... you gotta figure the death penalty is not out of the question.
Seriously though, intent is a big portion of how severe the punishment is, thus the difference between manslaughter and first degree murder. the problem is these guys always have the "well I was just fooling around and didn't mean it" excuse to make them not seem so bad.
What? They are wearing HTTP 404 s?
just put:
127.0.0.1 didtheyreadit.com
In your hosts file...
Or put an authoritative zone in your DNS servers if you have access.
Done, no query reaches their server.
Hint;
- remove your socks
- insert one sock in the other sock
- insert the ringing phone
- swing the socks (with phone in the toes) to bludgeon the offender
Works great, even if the phone breaks the mass in the socks still does damage.
Works with soda cans, coins, ice, or any other innocent until used as bludgeon objects.
Enjoy!
Either you posted the wrong link, or don't know what "vertical" means or haven't read a book recently or something. Maybe you just need glasses?
Your link clearly shows his right hand near the (correctly) upright screen, and his left holding a coffee cup near the keyboard, which is correctly sitting on his lap. The data ports on that laptop are on the hinge, which goes from one knee to another as it would during normal usage.
It's only destruction of evidence if there is an investigation and the ISP is aware of it.
Until then, it's just data.
After however... its a crime.
that had it. I can only sumarize my advice in a few words:
stay on the meds stay on the meds stay on the meds stay on the fucking meds.
Problem is, the patients do not like them, and quite often get emotional or physical rushes from not being on the meds. They have to have a good support structure to keep them on the meds.
It's hard to keep up with it, but if your sister avoids things like self-mutilation and so on it's worthwhile.
Do you mind sharing your IP list? (or where you got them from?)
That guy did not think it through.
If he does FBI at the door illegal stuff, having an open network might keep the conviction off. (Not if he says what he's doing in an article though..)
However, the open access point is FAR more likely to attract someone with the same idea, "hey, let's download mp3s on this guy's network!"
Now he's got several people doing it instead of one.... which mean's he's far more likely to get attention from RIAA or whatever and cause himself civil suit harm. Civil suits have "perponderance of evidence" for the loser, not the "beyond reasonable doubt" for criminal.
So he trades a low risk of jail for a MUCH higher risk of civil problems.
That's just dumb.
Just go find someone ELSE's access point that's unsecured and use that. Duh.
Yeah Google would need to watch that.
Except though Google has not gone all the way to a genericized name quite yet.
When people say they are "Googling" they mean they actually used Google to search the Internet.
Which is similar to but has a critical difference from asking for a "Kleenex" or a "Puff" (as some women 'round here say). A "kleenex" has become diluted to the point that people use it to refer to any paper that can be used to blow one's nose. When asking for "a kleenex" being and given a length of toilet paper I wouldn't complain, but saying "Google this" and seeing someone visit AltaVista my response would be "what the fuck are you doing? I told you to use Google."
For a second example; someone "Scotch Guarding" a carpet means they are actually applying the stuff that says "Scotch Guard" on the bottle to their carpet not just using some similar chemical carpet protectant. (Yeah, I know they stopped making the stuff...)
The only problem Google has is the clueless fuckwits that hear the conversation and think it means searching in general. Of course those people are mostly to dim to get on the internet in the first place or already use AOLsearch exclusively.
From Fox News. The story related to a monkey-pox outbreak spread by Gambian Rats that were caged with groundhogs (and later sold).
Gamgian Rat
Sorta cute if you like rats.
Lol.
:)
That's funny. My dad tells the greatest stories... most of them are. I thought that one might have been legit.
I guess not.
"Alf, he's back, in Pog form" - Milhouse